Mr. Speaker, I rise on a question of privilege. Very briefly it boils down to this.
On November 5 in the House the member for Athabasca made a statement to the effect that the member for Lac-Saint-Louis and I have accused Health Canada, quoting from Hansard , “of incompetence, negligence and using Canadians as guinea pigs regarding the use of the manganese gasoline additive MMT”.
I categorically deny having made such a statement. To the best of my knowledge also the member for Lac-Saint-Louis did not. Therefore I urge the member for Athabasca to rise in the House and retract that statement.